The New York Herald Newspaper, August 29, 1854, Page 4

- NEW YORK HERALD, ! ———————— JAM BS GYKRDON BESNETP, PROPRIE}OR .ND BDITOR @evies }. ¥. COBNES OF SAS8A0 28D FULTON STS. ) WERTISEMRNTS cencwed « a 4b LETTERS by Mat jor Budveriprons oF with 4 loer seo ments to be post guid, or tho postage will be deiveted from Whe soncy remitted. Yotume XX1.,, Team Cammix &xresy PATRA. gsRoapwar BOT KK TiRorve amp Prrevemio—Pr 4 SL's Poon Pic BaTiones Purnia A usr downy D KATuARIN® * Dano: Lamp ASD rom —ADELE LEND Mx Pexrzorion Tae aso amp 1, 4¢ Broadway Ormcrtam ewRs BVOMLE Y's OPEAs KOUSE, 3M Broeeway—Buom sure Brmones Faas TROUFR MACHSNICE’ BALL, Bo. 472 Brosdway—Neozno iy 4 SPUYY ES sNe INSTITU CB, No. 659 Broadway. - Sa ooun’s Orana TROUPES : SBARUONES GIP PODRUKL, Medison square. @max PxRroRuancns. or Ba om New York, Tuesday, August 20,1854 Malis tor Wurupe. MEW YORE HBRALD—RDITION FOR EUROF 2, ‘The Cosard mail steareship imerica, Captae Lang WE) leave Boston, to-moreow, a} l2o’cbck M., for Lav- fhe maiis will close in this city at quarter te thre» Wedock this af erncon Ve Hxrain, (printed in French snd Fug'iak padlisded at tea o’c.ock in the morning. singh » sopies in (wrappers, sixpence. sabcoriptions and advertisements for a2y «ition of fe New York Hexacw will ve received at tle 2 following pinces tn Burope — Lavm Poow.Jobn Hunter, No. 2 Paradis etret it, bonne... Edwarcs, andford & Co, No. 1% Or enhill "4 Wim. Thotaas & Co, No 19 Cache ori me atrest. Parn,.....Liviogsien, Wells & Co , 8 P' ue by Boarse, ee contents of the European edition ef term Haraty eth embrace the rows received by mail ary | te legraph fhe viice durin, the previous week aod tot be hour of TERRIBLE “TORNADO AT LOESVIUKLE. Atommado of unexampled sieence passed over ‘Losievile, Ky., daring churvh hours, on Suuday. Dee congregativa of a Presbyterian church, bat aewly erected, were engage be their devotions when the bia:t prostroted the editlve, barying the hapless ‘womates beneatn the raves. Twenty two dead bodies bad b enaczovered up ts last acconats, most- dy those of women and chiéren. A large number «wore dapgerous.y wounded, several of whon died -ghortly after being rescued. The scene, as described fm ou telegraphic despatch, must have been heart fending indeed. “More than one pandred baildiags many of costly construction, were damuged, and tae sumber of kilied and wovaded will doubiless be large. Several stcumbozts are sleo reported a: -baving been destriyed. A!toxeti this is one of the wost direfal visitations we had to record ter maby years. TBH PUBLIC HHALTE. While the cholera is rapidly disappearing frow ahe East, Weet and the middl ates, the South are beginn 1g 10 feel the effies of fea fal scourge the yellow fever. ‘Savannah appears.to ve the poia wich is mos? violently uitacked, aud Were a pasic prezails, while at New Orleans the disease pro. gees. At Key West it is alarmingly bat, and a Carariest a prepwations are mal t n ho» pitals for the As i yratifyiog bealth of our city, we appeud the f issuediby the Heulth Commiss‘oners, merely stating that.ad will rejoice when taose olliclals are enabled to close np the other cho.ers hospital, dispense with ‘the. services of tre pbysisiags and their suaistante, gad throw the physic in the North river—eud thar time is close at ba: Tho Commis-ioner WA that the Pravkiin let of septem er te hospital ¢o ott sirer, 2 .00B A. W. NATHAN © BLY, f EJ. BROWN, Pres, Bodrd Councilmen. JEDEUI vt MILLER, BL ©. Wa. ROCKWALL THOS. K. DOWN) y inform the pab will be closed on thy b Res, Physio. City Iaspector, Coamissiouers of Healch. Maxor's Orvice, New York, Aug. 25. EXTENSIVE FIRE AT MILWAUKIE. The Fire Kiog ie abroad for a certainty. In ad- @on to the many dirast ous conflagrations that have recently occurred, we learn that oa Friday last a divastrous tire took place at Milwauk’e, ia tae wery heart of the city, and among the mos! valaa Die buildings. The Joss is estimated at a million dollars as least. Surely, something may be done to eheck these fearfa! colamities. The loss of property by fire within the last four weeks is immense. FIRES IN THE WoODS. The fires in the woods rather g@acksn. We give elsewhere the lat avooah is of fese occurrences, so peculiar to this country. In the easte:n part of the 8 ate of Maiue the fires burn with unabated fary. Thousands of acres of valua- ble timber have been destroyed. Several villages have been attacked, and only saved from destruc- fion through the vigorons effurta of the inhabitants, in Massachusetts and New Hampsbire, als), the woods are on fire, The woods neor Loudon, Cina ia Wreat, are burning terrifically, aad the trains on the Geat Western Railroad will be suspended for a time in consequence. The account of th» barning of the Catskill Mountain Hous: turns out, fortuaate- dy, to be untrue, aud our news trom there states the fire in the wocds on the mouutain was ex ting uiehed by the recent raine, NEWS FROM BRITISH GUIANA, We have received cuc files of Goorgeto wn (Demi vara) papers to the Sih of August. The journals eovta.n tittle news, Erade was rather languti, al thengh the late importations were as largo as over Cholera bad not mae its appearance, and the i-land ceuiinued healthy, a0 that the local journals hope “that the British papers will contradict their la'e slarming reporta with respect to the mortality tee.” A Mr. Dorand, of Guernsey, bad offered to the Cc mbined Court to accept of their proposition, and establish direct steam ¢ommunication with Exgiaod. Thepapers are a littie nervous on the Subject of the annexation of Cuba to the United Beater, and discuss, very tomperately, the probable sfircts which mecha measure would have on their Dome tad-. DUTCH GUIANA. Our advices figm Sariaam are to the 6th of Jaly, pd «+ have sti! ‘acer intelligence from Paramaibo, Pm ‘he later c ty we lea n that several cases of cholera 1a* occurred at Nickerie, acd that ia con #eq eno ail vessels arriving at Paramatbo from that Place were quacantined. Tae Surinaamsche Cou- vant of July 6th has a most interesting history of the sire, progreas and présen: prospects of tho mis sion of the Moravian Brothers. AFFAIRS iN CUBA. Our advioos from Huvans are to the 21st instant. ‘The Je“ers of our correspondents are brief and in teresting; and we also give a translation of a pro- elemition of the Captain Geceral on the recent gevointion in Spain, from the Guceta of the Lito mstact. crease than NEWS PROM MEXICO. By telegrayh from New Orleans we have intelli gence from the city of Mexico tothe 17:h inst ‘Phe general ne*s is unimportant. As usual, the ‘were at the capital reports of the successes 0” th: gove’hwent troops over the rvolatioatste ; bat n» perticulars bave reached ur. As Ssnta Anna geae raily cel’ brates his victories by a graad demonates tion, .eud.ee we.do not learn that anything of this sort has ocourred latoty, it ia ressoaable to sapposa ‘the Toporte of tbe deleat of the revolationiste are ; i ,) will be 7 to warn bh come pity ‘aaeieat ending tou re 2 aoa" © frees prime. Durng Coun’ Ratows do Bouter, the celebs ed fii ast eta Foene man, wi vweversl of Dis sobordinat fice s, whose capta~ (os beem heretofos anc@ yned, wes sextenc: d to be snot om the 10th ivst. AV! Gg TION At Pitsbe gon ty W% strabicned PF TOYS 0210 RIVES. . ter «ec Sftern bonds inc ess wy he Onio, ad falling Atmo genie reget coement of steamboat ‘navi Tecel¥-d © 1a dame share of what #as gation ce the Wester ryere has the Ooirbeea termed the varni- gs of the company. This extiry yee o do cription of steam vessel bad idly gove «mn » short wh le, however, above € ycinvats un ii the pres ut seasia, Naviga | before it a sia appeared in-Wall street to bor- tion bY 3 beer ansponded since the 16th of July,at | row memcy ; and with an infatuation wh'eh whick tame tie taet bost pawed the foose? Brauner | P basse low twand, whion 19 abeut one haodesd miles be Wherlng. The bar at that poim is now tie atest obatra tion “fa the river, end although a LO mber ot baste from Ciweinnett, teund to Pitts OF org and Wheolmg, ascended the river as far asxoat ¥ jupd sobsegnent to the above dste, they found ‘hat siere was vot siMictent water on toe bar for chew to cross, aod they were consequently compellei to return witt their freight, Navigeioa bas tau view tually been elose? for a period of ards of six weeks, A pumber of new lowwater boats were built this season at Pittsborg and Woheellag to sap Jere of the paviet nn thos far have ante to disphyy the 3, and thetr » sustained greet loss in ovas+ quence. ite of the nuaberess litue sowas whi 2 dot tte barks of the Osio, aod the steamboat men who have becn ploy m n cousequenes of the low water, arenow anxious!y Woking for a risa, STATE OP THE WARKETS. Flour yester ay cobtinued al Bavarday’s quota tions. Sonthern brands were pretty freely seid, while Gansactious in Northen and West were light. Whest wos tirm but quiet. Indiaa coro opened ut 874 488 ents per bushel for prime sonad lots, but afterwares clo-ed at 86 a 86 cen's, estad r lishing a decline of 14 a 2) couts per busvel. Mess pork fell back to $14 75, s'owing a dechae of 25 cents per barrel, an sed with «tendency to lower prices. Lard soid at llja ll} cente. Cotwn was dull atthe oficial gnotations. | overlooked the gre the ameunt of three miliions of dollars. arown on the euthority of the company thas its im Joan effected tor. The Ene Keiroaa Company. The extracts from the files of the Herazo, which we publich eleowhere, will be read with peculiar interest by those awoog our fellow- citizens who bave bought or soid Erio Railroad stogk within the last few months: andwe think we may safely add that with the exception ofa few clergymen and hermits, there are few in duals in the community whom thie-restric tiov-will exclude frem the benefit of our re marks, We make them not with any view to aid-apy of tbe gamblers who make a living by buistering up or keveking down faucy stocks: in respect of Evie, t ocutioa of at least one of the classes of steckjobbing is pretiy well nigh gone, ond the experiments of the others are becoming daily more perilous. ib But while’ ¢ nversation in nine ou’ of ten male as in the city turns on the future of the ilroad Company ,it can hardly bo passed in sitenee by the press, and at all hazards, ine trath must be told, The community have aright to see before them the history of this muimueoth concern, in which so many fortunes have been swallowed up, abd 80 many families ruined, bot ouly tor their prese: ance in setkivg an investmeat for their money, but for the valuable 4 Which,every tale of gigantic fraud is ture to h. Tf, in referring to the subject, we have sion 10 draw atiention to gar own file-, to 2 nu the public ot the course We have pursaed with regard to the en-erprise in question nd to congratulate our cs ou the general evrreetuess of the opinions we have expressed during @ period of six or eight years, we trust that the uniform misrepresentations of whieh we have been the victim from so many quarters will be our excuse. When the notion of the e Railroad was first started, the pr rs gave it out that ifa losn of three millious could be obtained from the State the read could be carried out. it was seeurcd; subseriptions for one jeillion and a half of stock were taken up; and at a subse- quent day, a debt of seme $700,000 was con tract Wren this money, amouniing to some $. 10,000, was spent, the whole enter- prise wos brou. bk! to a stand. A very small portion of the road was built, aad it was im- poesible to borrow more money, or to issue more stock, So the concera was abaudored for seme years, In 1845, a new set of railroad men exumiced th» state of affairs of the com- pany. and sanounced that if the State would relic quish its claim for the three millions of dollars it bad advaneed, six more millions would complete the road, aud equip it. This was already p the estimate of the original projectors ; but the idea of @ line to Dus mails and freight. oom—soll, Climate, dic. of acres of land. prise for years to come, Kancos is, comparatively, a narrow belt, bu Rocky Mountoins, it runs through degrees of longitude. and fifty miles or so west of Missouri is fertile av@, in many localities, extremely rich, al though the scarcity of timber is rather a draw back than a convenience to the settler. Four- fifths of this territory are desert plains, becom- ing bigher and drier es you advance te the Rocky Mou:tains. Nebraska extends from the fortieth to the the same as that of Kansas. square miles of the Territory of Nebraska, we shall be agreeaoly disappointed if, upoa a care- ful exploration, there shall be more than 50,000 square miles pronounced available fur profita- ble cultivation. The head waters of the mighty Missouri, and ite great tributary, the Yellow Stone, flow down from the mountainous bar- kirk was popular, and the State dis | riers which form the western boundary o: Ne- waive its claim, and aceede in every par- | braske, and the former stream, for some two ticular to the request of the managers. | ibousand m:les, rolls its wild waters across the Three millions of stock were subscrived; the | northern balf of the Territory, and along its old cr rtideates f million and o half were | castern margin; but the soil is high and reduced to halt their valae, and consolidated witb the new issue; the old debt was assumed; and authority was obtained for the issue of first mortgage bonds to the amount of 33,099,000. Thier first issue was made under the suthority of the State; ard the agent was bound to re ceive pay for the bonds before they were issued. Even at that tme, rumors of a juggle by which this provision of the law was evaded were prevalent: but to all appearance, the dry, and cold and timberless. Flanking the Rocky Mountains, and among the numerous affluents of the Missouri and the Yellow Stone, from Fremont’s Peak to the British boundary, there are many charming little Tyrolean val- leys, eweet and green, where the Crow and the Black Feet Indians hold p «session. But they are six or seven hundred miles from the present frontiers of civilization, and inaccessible to steamboats, The present chances for emigrants company had not only the work done | in Nebraska are, asin Kunsas, at tho oastern by their predecessors, but six millions of dol- | exd of the territory, along the Missouri and its lars in hand—the sua they fixed themselyes as | contiguous tributaries. The value of these new Territories is not to be measured by their superficial area. Two bun- dred miles west of the Mississippi the whole character of this continent ischanged. It ceases to be American, as we understand it, and be- comes Asiatic, First, there are great plains which sweep southward from the British boua- dary down to Mexico, corresponding to the steppes of Tartary. Then comes the vastchain of the Rocky Mountains, bold, sharply defined, and generally timberless, like the mountains of Avia M ncr—then the desert basins of Oregon, Utah, and Wes:crn New Mexico, strikingly analagous to th: desert region between Egypt ané the Holy Land. The Great Salt Lake, its river Jordan, and its surrounding mountains of salt and basalt, are almost an exact geographi- cal duplicate of the Dead Sea and its sarround- ings. And we have even the royal polygamy of toe ancient city of Zion fully established ia the New Jerusalem of the Latter Day Saints, Cali- fornia is the modern Laad of Promise, and thus the paraliel is complete. 4 But weet of the immediate valley of the Mis- sissippi all estimates of the agricaltural value of our new Territories must be measured ac- cording to their geographically Asiatic charac- ter, climate, &c, The great plains suffer from want of water during the summer. They are so far removed from the ocean that its cloads are exhausted before they reach there, or they are borne away and condensed upon the sum- mits of the Rocky Mountains. In a/l that vaet region west of Kansas and Nebraska, the Rocky ly sufficient +o complete the work. Thoy not been many months at work before facts came to our knoy e which led us to animad- vert severely on the management, and to cau- Gon the public against the enterprise as vestment. Our warning had appa Jitue eifect ou the public mind, and some time before the road was completed, negotiations were made for the issue of four millions of se- cond mortgage bonds, Even this addition to their fands proved insufficient. Shortly after- wards, tLe company again appexred ia the market vs bosrowers with three millions and a half of income bonds ; and this was also taken up at some discount by capitalists. Meanwhile, the directors were freely using the Privilege granted them by the charter and issuing fresh stock. They were allvwed to increase their capital to ten millions of doliars; and though it is impossible to state whon the addi tions were made, or at what price the new stock was sold, it is now generally believe that a figure greater than that allowed*by the charter bas been reached, ¢ ‘ The convertible bonds were the means of completing the road, It was then snaousced that in spite of incredible difficulties the great work bad beea achieved, and the dark day was Yover. The Erie was henceforth to be a lender instead of a borrower and stockholders were ali to bless themselves for having been wise enough to invest their money ia itgstock, A chorus of exultation arove from every side cave one. Tho Heraup, stilt incredulous pointed to the woful discrepanoy between the estimates of the projectors ond the Sums agtusily expeuded, and tried yainly. the o p tru:tin..of the road, tie dr ators had ‘7 means | y the nuu‘a | practice of paylug inte est on the 8 ock as well us the The era of divice de now begun. Every tix no ths the Ere s'ockholders can hardly be coaceived, the pablic entirely grose inconsisteacy between the rimult.n:ously borrowing of mooey and payrent of dividend+,aod actaally took no less tea sx millious ef convertible boods. This was ayvin followed at short intervuls—toe dividends covtinutog all the time—by tresh loans in the rhape of third mortgage bonds, to We had never ceased to advocate cirouw- | Spectiou to those who dealt with the Erie Vow- pany, and the fulfilment of our forebodings was now at heud. Evil times came, aod in very few weeks, the stock of the company fell from eighty-*wo to thirty-three. It thea came to light that ®% was oppressed not evly by its public obligutions but by a cloud ef curreat jiabilities ; wad that the earnings ef the roat were not oxly ivsnfiicient to provide e dividend tond, but fell actually short of the eurreat expenses. A short while ago, it was aunounced mediute difficulties bad been overcome hy # with a baoker on the iudi- vidual security of some of the directors; but this momentary relief had no sooner been ov- taincd, than fresh negotiations are set on foot, and it appears that there yet remain current liabilities to a still larger amount unprovided Of course a new shave will be the only resource, Tue future is clear as noonday. Nothiag short of a miracle can avert.a bawk- ruptey iu February next, waen the income beuds come due; and even ‘before that, a shorter cut to a catastrophe may be dissovered. Tbe stockholders in the Erie Railroad kaow their own interest better than outsiders: but to us it would seem far the wisest and souadest policy to look the danger fally in the face aad antizipate eveuts by declaring boldly the true state ¢! affiirs, A declaration of insolveacy would be nothing but the bare trush; and while it.coudd not injure the credit ef the company more than the rumors now floating through the sireet, it would at all events relieve the stock- holders from the euormous tax they are now paying in the shape of interest at the rate of one and two per cent @ month on money, and would enable us to decide a problem yet ua- solved, viz.: whether the. Erie Railroad can or cannot make mouey by carrying passeagers, Kamas and Nebraska—Plenty of Elbow Aceordiag to a report trom the:General Land Office, the Territory of Nebraska covers an area 2,438 square miles, equal te 219,160,320 Kansas has an area of 126 283 sqvare miles, equal to 80,821,120 acres of land, To large portions of tvis land the Indian title has not been extinguished, but enough is open tor settlement to satisfy the most eager enter- in its length it is sufficiently extensive for ali practical purposes. Reaching from tke westers boundary of Missouri to the backbone of the twelve The soil for 4 handred forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, equal to the distance from New York city to @ point about three hundred miles northward in the heart of Cunada. Its extent east and west is Of the 342,438 Motntains and the Sierra Nevada, there is} | the Sterra Nevads, in California and Oregon, with the Pac fic in front, they have the ralny and the dry reacon. Thus i+ will appear that a margin of a huo- Qrcd sad fi'ty or a bundred miles of the eastern end of Kansas and Nebraska, is all of those ter- r tor.esto which any of our preconceived Ame- rean ideas of geography, soil aud climate will opply. Beyond that, as emigration extends, it But adapt it-elf to an almost total absence of tiaber, to a thin, dry eoll, to more strongly de- fined dry and rainy seasons, to a prevailing rearcity of water off the great rivers, to artifi- cial irrigation, to very hot summers and very cold winters, Bat there is yet plenty of elbow room at the eastern end of Kansas and Nebras- ka—room in euch for the population reqaired fora State. And the first squatters have the peck of the lands. Hence the rush to Kansas and Nebraska. Wao Swart se Mayor?—Rvworgp Srurr Amox@ tus Keow Norawos—The Mayor alty of this great city is considered a prize worth fighting for, and, although the fiaal chorge does not take place until Novem- ber, the battle commenced some time ago. The cool weather we have enjoyed for the past two or three days—the ap- proech of the September conventions—the fact that the primary city elections will soon be held— the uncomfortable and entangled state of parties geperally, and the laxity of trade, have all combined to set the political cauldron boil- ing at a tremendous rate, Nothing comes from as politicians are generally celebrated for their bridliant conversatioaal powers. An Indian chief—it may have been our whirkey-loving enemy, Mr. William Bowlegs— ouce remarked ‘that the pale faces were “berry ovsartin.” ‘Thas’s our opinion about the char- ter election, although the whigs are in high spirits, and this hilarity is produced by the fact that they consider themselves .sure of the un- divided support of that mysterious power in the State ’yolept the Know Nothings. This body, as our readers are aware, is a secret poli- tical order, with bat one idea, viz.: the pro. ecription of all foreign born citizens, more especially Roman Catholics. We have no doubt that the order has many members, and if they are united upon the whig candidate his election is more than probable. The softs have read the Know Nothings out of Tamminy Hall (what a blow!) but the hards may yet steal a march on the whigs and the softs by put- ting forward some candidate for whom the Know Nothings can vote. It would be ne- cessary for that candidate to be a mem- ber of the order, and to pledge himself to remove all foreigners and Roman Catholics from office, and to appoint none but native bora citizens in their places. Now, we have not heard of any democrat— hard or soft, Nebraska or anti-Nebraska—who is willing to give such a pledge; but the whigs, who “tried on” the native dodge in 1846, with considerable success, are willing to risk bara- ing their fingers for the sake of a temporary triumph; aud several patriots are anxious to immola'e themselves upon the altar of nativism, and, wrapping themselves up in the star- spangled banner, walk into the City Hall by the marble entrance, on New Year’s day, eigh ten hundred and filty five, and be carried dowa the stairway on the the other side, on New Year's Eve, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, a political corpse. Shocking as this tate may seem, it is no leas the fact that several persons are most anxious for the mar tyr’s crown. Several whigs—some pro- minent politicians, and some political nov. entities—are working for the Kaow Nothiag vote. The following is stated to be the modus operandi of the order. Each lodge or ovuacil receives a charter from a grand body, compos- ed like the grand lodges of Odd Fellows, of re- Precentatives from each subordinate lodge. This is the supreme power—its regulations cannot be altered except by its owa vote. It is decided in this body who shall receive the votes of the party—the decision is commaai- cated to each lodge, and any subordinate body ahich refuses to accept such nomination is de- prived of its charter and ignominiously kicked out of the order. The whigs claim that they have a majority in this grand council, and that its President, J. W. Barker, a whig, will be the whig and Know Nothicg candidate. This arrangement dovs not please all the Know Nouthiogs, and many of them object to Barker. The mal- contents kave settled upon Merwin R. Brewer, @young man who has never held office, and who is of not much account as a politician. The split is simply on the question of supporting old politicians, or making independent nomina- tions of new men. Another difficulty exists in the fact that Mr. Brewer is a follower of Wil- liam H. Seward, a gentleman who is not very popular with the natives just at present. There are some Know Nothings on the police, and Mr. Barker, it is said, has pledged himeelf to remove the present Chief in case he is electe?. Matsell is marked as the first victim oi the guil- lotine. The axe is uplifted, the sawdust is sprinkled, and the basket is ready. It is « ter- rible state of things, Itis alleged, upon doubtful authority, that Mr. Barker will be defeated in the Whig Nomi- nating Convention, and that Mr. Brewer will be the candidate of the Broadway House poli ticians. To us it seems more probable that both will be dropped, and that “both your houses” will compromise upon some individual us yet ufiknown to fame and the Suoday presa. It seems evident, at any rate, that the poli- ticians have got tirm hold upon the Kaow Nothings; and like the boa constrictor they are lubricating that mysterious order previous to swallowing it. The attempt may be unsuc- cessful, however. There is material in the Know Nothing order for the coastruction of a powerful party. Its members are bound to- gether by the strongest tic—religious fanati- ciem; they are not allowed to kaow much of the plans of their leadem; they vote blindly, and in work the dark. Rather anti-republican for the masses; but what glorious fun for the leaders! Tae New York Pactric Rattroap Company AsanpoxED—Ay Ixpronayt Eprrortat Sroca- noLDER.—Our readers have been informed of the fact that Mesera, Robert J. Walker and Thomas Butler King, late chief managers of the New York. Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, have abandoned that concern, and kick:d it overboard, for a special contract wita the of Texas for a railroad across that State. Provision bas been made, how- ever, that all the stookholders of the Paci‘ic bur who have their assesainents Sa haa a)l this fuss but talk; but even that is pleasant, cific bombug was tre enterprising editor of ti Plaindealer of tne same town, to the moderate figure of two bundred thousand dollars. He assieted in the inflation of the babble; but now that It has exploded, he has discovered that the thing was a monstrous imposition from begia- ning to end. The psper to which we have re- ferred eays of its neighbor, that port's bevett Last eenson. Tuat porformanes was fally| + A change came over the spirit of its dream, aud two | sliudea to atthe ime m the HERALD, end now we © eta capsqinen thle sams heaped on the | ui little to add to our previous remarks. The piece was] Dack# of chese overstadowing railroad sae prveeg es pony ‘and it yelled at the poor, oppreasy!, | Better played last nizht than on the occasion of its, monopoly ana raitroad-ridden people vo ‘look out for | first representation, Miss Davenport's performance of) [pote ge im scotanerhoe ng"? pete your | Camille was excellent througuout, and the thint . guard rights, your wi catch: Shea wae Je the cogine of wonopoly is thundering | 2¢t Wee the Dest pivce of acting wo have for many a day It was # parely artistic eff & full embodiment of the part; @ picture vividly but not too high'y cvlorsd, Mr. Conway’s performances! of Armand deserves bign praise, aluhougn it was no without faults. In the fourth act ho was, at first, Duisrerous. When suyposed to be talking tial tos friend, be shouted 6» loudly that he might been beard plainly iu a theatre three times as large a3] the Broadway. In the preceding portion of the play h drees Was not @ la mode de Paris, but quite the reverse. But so much Mfe, vigor and spirit were throwa into tl perfermance by bth Mise Daveoport ani Mr. Conway, that all minor errors were overlooked, and aa effest situations and startiiug effects followed each other rapid succession, the actors and the audience were ex-| cited to an extraoriinsry viteh of enthusiiam, as shown! Ly the powerful aod passioaare acting ou the one and the repeated and hearty plaudits on the other, Mise Davenport sad ‘ir. Conway were ca'led out at the end of the third ant fourth acts, and at the fall of the] curtain. ‘Camille’ is full of inconsistencies, bat is a most exciting drama, uni taxes a strong hold on the sympathies and jussious of the auticaco, There must) be some charm about # play which cam keep a New York audience in their seats during thieo| boura end » halt’ We do not point out the tnoon. sistencies referred to aov+, because it was thought cessary to introdec» them in preparing the piece for Englisb stage, aod they cannot be corrected. The play, met with # success ia-t night which insures for it goo run, The cast of the winor characters was nearly the tame as that of litseason Mme, Babiliar! (originally played by Mrs. Vernon) was reapectably rendered by Mrs, France, and \'r. Lefiogwell ‘made up” the ancient Du- yal very naturally, and played the part with the proper degree of aplomb. the piece went off smoothly, and the mise en scene wae good—we mey say en passant, that the trick plano in the first scene was @ miserable affair, and ought to be reformed altogether. ‘Cam'‘l'e” will be’ played this eveniog over your iand, erarbivg, c.asbing ano emasbiog ! The editor not having paid in the assessments of his $200,000 stock in the grand Pacifis con- cern, “can’t come in” to the Texas arrange- ment. He is but one of a hundred who have paid nothing and lost nothing. Walker and King seem to understand what they are about. Country editors, who know nothing of finan- ciermg, should not embark with them in Pacific railroads, A Free Necro Conony mv Vinginta—MELAN- cnoLy Picrure.—We publish this morning a highly interesting sketch of the rise, decline and fall of the colony of free blacks set up by the philanthropic Richard Randolph, in Eastera Virginia, some forty years ago. We commend it to the reflective perusal of our anti-slavery emancipation cotemporaries, and we would spe cially suggest it as the truthfal basis fora new novel upon Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The melancholy picture of this Virginia co Jony, however, is not ata'l surprising. The history of the free black empire of Hayti, and of Jamaica since the unfortuoate emancipation act—unfortunate to both races—tell us the tame story upon a larger scale, and with far greater demoralizing and disastrous results. The free blacks ot Jamaica are wasting away from the same causes as the little colony at Israel Hill; and the condition of the subjects of the black despot of Hayti and of his empire is even worse. History, teaching by example, is said to be philosophy, and this philosophy, in every expe- riment, confirms the cpinion that the African race is incapable of self-government. Liberia may be urged as an exception; but if emigra tion from the United States to Liberia were suspended for a generation or two, even that republic would probably lapse again into Afri can barbarism. Redd tue sketch of the Virgi- nia colony at Israel Hill. It is very curious and instructive. City Int AsayrintaPimateoe Caboee aie Pessongero. arrived at this yesterday. of which 1,926 were from Liverpool, 206 London, 107 from Antwerp, and 114 from Genoa, . A Famity Prostrate By LigHtsrsa. der storm on Fri ay evening lest, Movre end bis family were ritiog ina Jamoics, Long Islani, wea they were all mace for twenty lightning Ag soon aftr, obser: fosbels Beene, made genes Seep slosh be cavers ing it to atoms, @ plese of it thrown against of the horse of Mr Moore with such Tieleuttr ag to ee away a piece of the flech . Fats. yRom 4 ScaFroi Ding —A serious accident occurred on Fridsy last, atStuyvsant, by whieh two men were badly injured, ip falling from a scaffolding while pa'nting a boure pear river One was plunged inte the water, and the upon thedock. The names of the un- fortunate men were Giltert Clows and Wm. Holb-ook. At the last report, Helorook was dead and the other was not expected to recover. Mustasy—A Cororrp Compayy.—The Sorr Smet Free Som. Democratic Pamary Exgections—A Warning To THE Irish CatHo- 1103.—The special penny trumpet of the adminis- tration faction notifies its “democratic friends that the election for delegates to the Syracuse Convention” of the 6th September, will take place this evening, at the different polls in this [ Cavy Gur, ac mpany of colured men, of- city, between the hours of six and eight o’clock. sews tay cane Hed sabe bt nal misreied In the same number of the same administra- | in good military wtyle This company attracted much attention as they paraded through the streets, a colored Tripod band being something that is not seen every ay. = PARADEOF THE FaNTASTIOALS — A company O° fantasticrle pas-ed our office yenterdsy, presen*ing a group of the- Mort groterque characters that could be imagined. at the head of t! rocession sas @ email light in which roe “More and Lise,” came bariequins, Ponch and Juash, and otbers would: bring » laugh to tie ‘ace of “kok himself. They were eaily fupny felives iu appearance. CATILB FROM ENG) AND —The ship Antartic, from Liver- POO!, aziived yest r ay morning, bas on board one hun- dyed and eighty hed of cattle cosisting of bu ls, cows, cheep, pigs and horses, for the Kentucky Stoce Company, tion organ, there is a violent attack upon the Jrish Catholics, in which the following compli- mentary language occurs:— Unfortunately, however, for this country, it is flooded at present by @ horde of »enighted, semi-civilized, vin diciive and suspicious body of alien peasantry, whose sole delight appears to be in drunkeanens, rapine, theft and murder—for whom our hospitals are bi who fill our common jails, keep our court houres incessantly in use, Cumpel us to enlarge our prisons, aud rejaer tue goluws a public necessity. Itty this sind of Catholics in Wo0m ra ap ephrgrses and reckless ce:nagogues flud it instruments for all thetr uuse:upulous designa It is of this kins of Catholics we speak, woen we sesert that they sre manufactured into “better citizens” the cart lead, on order that they may be used as tools—that they are hrred to drive native born Americans from the polls—tbat they conspire together to crowd out of @ no- mination every man without an 0’ or a Mc to his namo, and under the auspices of a Josuitical church ssex to rule our country, by filling all its other public { tions ag well as i's chirity homes, its dispensarios ang ite penitentiaries. We take this to be tantamount to a notifica- tion that oar adopted citizens “with an O’ or a Cameo=Dagucrieatypen taken only at the Wiilismson gsllery, fo Booklyn The sittiogé are in- . 3 ry ton street, opposite Clin‘on. rebinbind Twenty-five vent Di iy fret style of art, are taken at the or two picture fectory, 2t9 Bondway, with solmoy’ double camers, drawing t~o port aits ot oace at a riny nittirg. Patent rights for sale, by authority of , in the Mc” to their names, are not expected nor want- el al ag ree ed t» participate in the elections this evening. otek bean) Bri » the Original The+pecial organ of Secretary Marcy and the the'peonle in ange Sombre’ Ts var ing tp trom administration gives them a fair warniog. Let | tamers The only NEE. & GO 1 pang them keep off. It is @ private S88 Broadyey. 9 Cees MPRA custom house election. Beebe & Co, Fasnionable Histters, 156. pote my ge invite the attention of their cus- Icoor Doveras at Home.—The Chicago Tri- | Womrrsare ibe partic 30 the fall fashions for gentle. bune, & savage free soil abolition whig organ, ths butibeaesion of se waehes. says that Judge Douglas, en route from Wash- | dress has for Me cee which may be deemed a ington, arrived at Chicago on Thursday morn- Trac mapas Se Garde monet wane oat = ing last, and that de best t apoteclates by contrasting tt with any hat — He must bave come by mail, and under one of his own | “uced seavon. 1° is offered to the public ase franks, for the first place at which be was soon was the | ©!s¢8 mocel in ‘he department of costame to whieh it be- Priva.e 100m of our Tostmaster, in solemn conclave | org®. Although an Sera upoa all its prede- with that dignitary me dozen others o! toat clique. porainy Pages ‘s fal) for 1854 ‘are sold at the old The result of thelr deliberations will doubtless be scen | Price, $4. GENIN. 214 Brovdway, iow of Young) amarica"~ibe deh ing Sl thas i igs Eo aga his entrance of courre created s marked sensation, and Pc nage! op bresury ho a to = an increased demand for ponies and smashes. T. hovlton, a veges rm fm conyers - operon uealaieg The Judge is further warned against at- | Wt, goto Fort Hamil‘on and purchase one at the sale tempting any public demonstration in Chicago, | %™m«Bcine today | It ise glorious opportunity either and it is likely, considering the exasperation ape mente or the abolitionists, and their numbers in that | aoivteieen ty these. pote ns oe Te bailao, by Chomas Lome ed LS a A comic place, that he does not contemplate, for the | >*l's” is decidediy on the rich order, H Geo. RB. Present, any public manifestation upon Kansas gest success at all their and Nebraska and the River and Harbor bill. | $35 'Srosubey” Stele thal ty teat, post Lincaamaaed But what cares he for the anti-slavery town of : Ws Chicago? The leader of a revolution is gene- Pag my ened png ny mayne ec 5. pear rally supposed to understand his game. Old tory prloss, ou bis elegsnt plenos and melodeons, for fogies, old Political intriguers, and traders and poner niger vey boa ae slg 4 Boston and hucksters ere all'in a stew; but Douglas main- | severa) New eaten sent Ae csi ees Now Haven instrament Dest terms. tains his equanimity. He looks to Baltimore for a public demonstration—not to Chicago. guaranteed. Dealers supplied on the nem=Viotnas, There is a world of fun ahead of us, en rua hss eam oto sa ges see! ean’ deesgin pants, Is Naw Horst ox Te Firth AVENUE—Takr Brrvoort Hour Gaede ont eer co Ole for $2.60; boys —A new hotel, conducted on the European plan, will be | "et 8nd pante, , Nassau st. pened on the fifth of next month, on thecorner@ | ose bann failures. Blils on the banks 7 Lighth street and Fifth avenue, by Mr. James anderson, | of ihe, States of “rootgan, Indians, Iinois and Wis- ormerly of the College Hotel. Some idoa may be formed pag etalon Pare yee po awed —— Cloth. f its internal appearance from the fact that ninety @ “BL. hag ithe ty strests. those dollars have been expended on the furniture eee ee ore eee a alone. ‘The building is five stories high, and has an ex Broken ta Bionen Banks!—ali Votes. tent of about one hundred feet en the Fifth aveaue, by po Aa ing ol ng « y naivety on Eighth street. It contains one hundred and Ove | of Nessau and Fulton strete The only ona price oath apartments, affording ample accommodations for single | ing store in New York CA fer etwabeers nee or pervons and familios, besides tho reception parlors, Sibu we ‘oan’ ast “soy! ot Seansemaieaaes reading rooms, &. The decorations are exceedingly peor a“ ore chaste and beautiful, and the furniture is netearpaeved | em ibiites by that of any other hotel inthe city. The walls and and every beat conciered ph poser ‘will be callings othe room are feseoed, and the balls are | Siva at parts payors fo souly made otbeg, at paved with encaustic tiles, s material which possosses | EVANS’ warehouse, 66 and 68 Fulton all the beauty and durability of the best mossic. The i pe ae orem e restavrant, which is situated oa the frst floor, is ninety. | , Mande ase! Date! Se MY eight feet by thirty, and is furnished with the most ex- | of French emb:oliered Nacds, in cd Series wae quisite taste, Here the inmates can be served with their | lia, at half the usual piers. en French meals at any hour of the day, or sts alight additional ex. | linen cambries and cambete & tpg be furnished with if desirable, ia their O@er tor pense can them, al a Lora & Teyier rey, aloe own apartments. merinos, paramatias. Nag ‘The ladies’ entrance is on Eighth street, and the gon, | om the most seasuaable ety aro: tlemen’s on the Fifth avenue, and both are decorated Iagraleg, tbees ply, sah ‘ko. Drove goods with beau'iful designe in fresco. It would be almost im- career, es, wc possible toenumerate the conveniences with which the rand street, of Caryatie, Brevoort House is furnished; but it is suflciont to say | 255 28% —— that it wante for nothing that ean contribute to thocom- | yadtes’ Fall Fations.—Frank Lestte’s La- fort and accommodation of {'a inmates. We understand | dew’ Gaseite of Fasn'.< (or Seovemes ie som moady, ang that large number of rooms have beon engaged a long | for nsle #8 tie Vcteaa” phate of tho Pare fall time in advance, and jadging from present appearances, | fag.iona, slao pumerd!® of merican it promises to be one of the best patronized hotels ia | English styles; spieadl Setioren Oe Sevile work; paper New York. The proprietor is Mr. Custia Judson, for- | patter f4, Merguerity is the most Selanel merly of Judson’s Hotel, and now of the New York; bat lacies’ magezioe publi?? @ the world. the establishment will be under the superintendence of wee ‘A Desirable Acquisition. Mr. Sanderson, who has had » large experience in the mneewes mace te tnraatent 4316 at from 82 60 te 5 mansg-ment of hotels, and who will enter upon his new | egch; a a, Newent a the = nit Capt. Joveph Mog 3 wee pve Become Alive oatiain ies ar te of the ye pte gto og Artor Houne, mameinoterse ~ 4 ) oaw ‘nay assla- | ment of gentomen’s ashing goods be found in hie ~ pak 2 Be Obes & vo Bales |] ew oe . ‘ pane